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STATION INDICATOR.

No. 400,242. Patented Mar. 26, 188.9.

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No. 400,242. v I Patented Mar. 26, 1889.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

ONESIME E. .MIOHAUD, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

STATION- i SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed April 3, 1888.

NDICATOR.

To all tu7t'012t it may concern:

Be it known that I, ONESIME E. MICHAUD, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in Station-Indicators, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The features of the improvement are hereinafter set forth and claimed, and illustrated in the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved indicator; Fig. 2, a rear elevation, the rear plate removed; Fig. 3, adetail; Fig. 4, a section on the line 4 45 of Fig. 1, and Fig. 5 a section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

A represents the indicator-case. The front plate, a, in Fig. 1 is .shown broken away in places to exhibit the interior construction, and at a therein is the opening past which the belt B, bearing the names of the stations, is moved. The belt is Wound alternately off and onto the rollers O and D.

A special feature of the improvement is the combination of rollers and parts immediately therewith associated, by nleansof which the belt B is properly moved past the opening a.

E E represent two rollers arranged, respectively, at opposite sides of the opening a in the rear of the plate a, and held and adapted to be rotated in fixed bearings. F F represent two other rollers arranged, respectively, above and beneath the pair of rollers E E. The rollers F F are journaled in movablebearings, so that they can be closed against or toward the rollers E E, respectively, and

thereby bind the belt B more or less tightly,

as desired, between them. To this end the bearings f of the rollers F F are swung on pivots f and at f are united by a spring-tie, G. The tie operates to draw the rollers F F, respectively, toward the rollers E E, but elastically, so that when the belt is drawn, as hereinafter described, the tie yields sufficiently to enable the belt to be adjusted, but so that, on the other hand, the rollers F F shall bear against or toward the rollers E E, respectively, with sufficient force to prevent the interposed belt B from being slipped upon the rollers.

Between the rollers E E is journaled a shaft, H. This shaft is provided with a gear, h, which engages with'a gear, e, on the roller E and also with a gear, e, on the roller E.

I represents a lever journaled on the shaft H, and provided with a pin, 2 This pin is, by suitably turning the lever on the shaft H and also by means of a lateral play provided for the lever, adapted to be put into engagement with the perforations j in a disk, J, which is fast upon the shaft H. NVhen the lever is thus engaged, it can by movingthe lever as indicated by its positions in full and dotted'lines, Fig. 5,be made to rotate the rollers E E and in the direction in which the disk J and shaft H are rotatedthat is, the lever is turned in the direction in which it is desired to move the rollers E E and belt B, and is then put into engagement with the disk .1. Then, by throwing the lever backward, the shaft H-is rotated and the rollers E E and belt B, through the instrumentality of the gears h e 6, moved as desired.

The mechanism for connecting the lever I with the disk J is shown more distinctly in Fig. 3. As there illustrated, the lever is disengaged, and to engage the lever it is moved toward the disk and the pinc' thereby inserted in the perforation The spring 2", which is bears against the fixed part 2' is of use in operating the lever in the direction described. The lever proj ects suitably from the case to enable the operator to reach it. The perfora tions j and the parts thereby co-operating are contrived so that the belt B shall be moved to bring the station-names I) regularly past the opening a. The rollers F F serve, as stated, to hold the belt against the rollers E E, respectively, so that when the rollers E E are rotated the belt B shall be moved with them. By reason of the action of the tie G the rollers F F are pressed equally against the rollers E E. The manner in which the belt is held is shown more distinctly in Fig. 4. Belts K K are used to communicate the motion of the'rollers E E to the rollers O D, respectively. The belt B is drawn by the roller 0 or D, which is in the direction in which the belt B is being moved, and it is unwound from off the other roller O or D. The

attached to the lever, and whose free end rollers C I) are each provided with a pawl, c, and ratchet c, to enable the roller 0 or D to receive the motion transmitted by the belt K when it is desired to wind up the belt, and when. the belt is to be unwound from oif the roller C or D the pawl rides upon the ratchet and the motion of the roller is not communicated to the belt K, leading to that roller.

L represents a lamp arranged in a compartment, a, of the case, and its light can shine through the opening 7 to illuminate the belt when used at night.

The improvement is useful in all forms of railway passenger-cars, and it can be used in other places in steamboats, for instance. It is preferably portable, in order that it may be transferred from place to place, and to be hung up at either end of a car. In operating it, the person in charge of the car, after leaving a station, adjusts the indicator-belt to bring the next station on the belt opposite the opening a, and at the end of the route the belt can be shifted in the opposite direction.

The row b of figures upon the belt B represent the distances of the stations, respectively, from the terminusstation. The row I) is the distances of the stations, respectively, from the last station, going in one direction, and the row 5 the distances from the last station going in the opposite direction.

I claiml. The combination of an indicator-belt and a pair of rollers, E E, over which it passes for presentation to view, with additional rollers F F, mounted in movable bearings and in contact with said belt above and below said rollers E E, and a spring-tie attached to said movable bearing for drawing said rollers F F against said belt, the latter passing in front of rollers E E and behind rollers F F, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. An indicating-belt and a pair of rolls over which it passes for presentation to the eye, in combination with gear wheels (2 c,

turning with said rolls, a shaft provided with a gear-wheel, h, which meshes with said gear wheels 6 e, a lever turning on said shaft having lateral play thereon and provided with a lateral pin, and a disk fast on said shaft and provided with perforations for receiving said pin, in order that the indicator-belt may be operated by moving said lever, substantially as set forth.

The combination of the indicator-belt B and the rollers O D, on. which the ends of said belt are wound, with the casing A, having an opening in its front opposite the middle of said belt, the rolls E E, arranged above and below said opening, in order that the belt may pass over and before them vertically behind said opening, the rolls F E, arranged in front of said belt above and. below said rolls E E, the pivoted bearings f, in. which said rolls F F are mounted, and the spring-tie G, connecting the free ends of said levers, substantially as set forth.

4. In combination with a case having an opening and an indicator-belt arranged behind said opening, a pair of rolls journaled in fixed bearings before which said belt passes, a pair of rolls arranged in front of said belt above and. below the pair first mentioned and mounted in movable bearings, a spring-tie for drawing said movable bearings toward each other, and a lever-shaft and gearing for operating the pair of rolls first above mentioned, substantially as set forth.

5. In combination with a traveling belt and pair of rolls before which it passes, a pair of movable tightening-rolls arranged in front of said belt, and spring-pressed against said belt above and below the former pair of rolls, for the purpose described.

itness my hand this 28th day of March, 1888.

ONESIME E. MICI-IAUIZ).

itnesses:

(11. D. MOODY, O. O. LOGAN. 

